Merge branch 'master' into structured-attrs-shell

 Conflicts:
        src/nix/develop.cc
        src/nix/get-env.sh
        tests/shell.nix

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.cc b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
index ef9f8efca..c3206a577 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ static char * dupStringWithLen(const char * s, size_t size)
 
 RootValue allocRootValue(Value * v)
 {
+#if HAVE_BOEHMGC
     return std::allocate_shared<Value *>(traceable_allocator<Value *>(), v);
+#else
+    return std::make_shared<Value *>(v);
+#endif
 }
 
 
@@ -233,22 +237,34 @@ static void * oomHandler(size_t requested)
 }
 
 class BoehmGCStackAllocator : public StackAllocator {
-  boost::coroutines2::protected_fixedsize_stack stack {
-    // We allocate 8 MB, the default max stack size on NixOS.
-    // A smaller stack might be quicker to allocate but reduces the stack
-    // depth available for source filter expressions etc.
-    std::max(boost::context::stack_traits::default_size(), static_cast<std::size_t>(8 * 1024 * 1024))
+    boost::coroutines2::protected_fixedsize_stack stack {
+        // We allocate 8 MB, the default max stack size on NixOS.
+        // A smaller stack might be quicker to allocate but reduces the stack
+        // depth available for source filter expressions etc.
+        std::max(boost::context::stack_traits::default_size(), static_cast<std::size_t>(8 * 1024 * 1024))
     };
 
+    // This is specific to boost::coroutines2::protected_fixedsize_stack.
+    // The stack protection page is included in sctx.size, so we have to
+    // subtract one page size from the stack size.
+    std::size_t pfss_usable_stack_size(boost::context::stack_context &sctx) {
+        return sctx.size - boost::context::stack_traits::page_size();
+    }
+
   public:
     boost::context::stack_context allocate() override {
         auto sctx = stack.allocate();
-        GC_add_roots(static_cast<char *>(sctx.sp) - sctx.size, sctx.sp);
+
+        // Stacks generally start at a high address and grow to lower addresses.
+        // Architectures that do the opposite are rare; in fact so rare that
+        // boost_routine does not implement it.
+        // So we subtract the stack size.
+        GC_add_roots(static_cast<char *>(sctx.sp) - pfss_usable_stack_size(sctx), sctx.sp);
         return sctx;
     }
 
     void deallocate(boost::context::stack_context sctx) override {
-        GC_remove_roots(static_cast<char *>(sctx.sp) - sctx.size, sctx.sp);
+        GC_remove_roots(static_cast<char *>(sctx.sp) - pfss_usable_stack_size(sctx), sctx.sp);
         stack.deallocate(sctx);
     }
 
@@ -908,7 +924,7 @@ void EvalState::evalFile(const Path & path_, Value & v, bool mustBeTrivial)
         // computation.
         if (mustBeTrivial &&
             !(dynamic_cast<ExprAttrs *>(e)))
-            throw Error("file '%s' must be an attribute set", path);
+            throw EvalError("file '%s' must be an attribute set", path);
         eval(e, v);
     } catch (Error & e) {
         addErrorTrace(e, "while evaluating the file '%1%':", path2);